An e-commerce CEO is getting absolutely roasted online for laying off 90% of his support staff after an AI chatbot outperformed them
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Suumit Shah, the CEO of Bengaluru-based Dukaan, said the chatbot answered customer queries in 2 minutes — a task that took the humans over 2 hours.

In similar case, US National Eating Disorder Association laid off entire helpline staff. Soon after, chatbot disabled for giving out harmful information.

  • snoozeflu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    I know for myself I would appreciate having my issue resolved in 2 minutes as opposed to being put on hold for 2 hours by some sluggo human who is putting in minimal effort working from home.

    • answersplease77@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      I disagree and personally never once in my whole life reaching support for buying, reserving, trading, returning, recovering, or any finisning any deal has an AI’s generic irrelevent response helped me. I had to have a real human step in to do it otherwise I’d know how. 2nd of all I can’t blame an AI if it made a mistake, then it would be mine, but support employees are held accountable and communications records are there. This hapened to me and cost me thousands buying, reserving and trading online.